gubernatorial election in the state as the defeated candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Emmanuel Jime, has approached the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Makurdi to upturn the victory of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate.That election, which went down to the wire after being held on March 9 and the follow-up supplementary poll of March 23, saw Ortom polling 434,473 votes to defeat Jime who garnered 345,155 votes.
Interestingly, most of the local government areas where he won had, at one time or the order, tasted the bitter pill of the marauding herdsmen who left thousands of children and women orphaned and widowed in gruesome manner. Strangely, the opposition failed to realize the mindset of the people concerning the governorship race early enough but went a step further to worsen their fortune in that election with the unguarded utterances of the some bigwigs of the party who, at different times, blamed the repeated Benue bloodbath on the people themselves rather than the invading armed herdsmen.
“I was really overwhelmed and I decided that I wasn’t going to contest again, let me be a one term governor but have my peace because I could not stand the pains that people felt that I brought on them. But I quickly remembered that there was need to consult God. “He made it clear to me that the tenure of a governor by the Constitution is two terms of four years each. So, God assured me that He was going to complete that process Himself.
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